Area of West Papua: 459 million hectares. This is 24% of Indonesia’s land area.

Population (2015 estimate): 4,020,900 This is just 2% of Indonesia’s population.1

Freeport, owner of the Grasberg mine, claims to pay $696 million in tax to the Indonesian government each year.

The gold and copper reserves in the Grasberg mine have an estimated value of $108 billion.4

Key indicators2

  1. Indonesian government statistics (bps.go.id)
  2. Indonesian government statistics (bps.go.id), Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, nin.tl/WP-social-indicators and UNICEF, nin.tl/HIV-Indonesia
  3. Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney: nin.tl/WP-demographics and Indonesian government statistics (bps.go.id)
  4. Asian Correspondent, nin.tl/Indonesia-freeport
  5. West Papua Action Network, nin.tl/violations-up
  6. Solomon Islands government, quoted at nin.tl/violations-condemned
  7. See, for example, nin.tl/UN-in-WP
  8. WWF, nin.tl/WWF-new-guinea